ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Alexandra Keegan is the co-founder and Executive Director of the East County Youth Symphony, and Artistic Director/conductor for the Pacific Lyric Association Opera.

Ms. Keegan obtained her DMA in Music in Eastern Europe. During her conducting career she worked with professional, semi-professional and youth orchestras including the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Ukrainian National Radio Company.

Over the past nine years, under Ms. Keegan's direction ECYS students have performed more than sixty public concerts with programs that include N.Rimski-Korsakov's "Scheherazade", L. van Beethoven's Symphonies No. 1, 2, 3, 5, and 7, P. Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5, 6, A.Dvorak's Symphonies No. 8 and 9, C. Frank's Symphony in D, S. Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3, J.Brahms's Symhpny No.3, S.Rachmaninov's opera "ALEKO", and many other original orchestra works.

ECYS Alumni inspired and trained by Ms. Keegan have been accepted to Eastman School of Music, Berklee College of Music, Cincinnati Conservatory, Oberlin Conservatory, New England Conservatory, Curtis Institute of Music, University of North Texas, Paris Conservatory, and other top music schools in United States and abroad.

PRE-ORCHESTRA DIVISION DIRECTOR / INSTRUCTOR

Irie Morales holds the position of Concertmaster for the East County Youth Symphony's Advanced Orchestra while maintaining her own private violin/viola studio. Ms. Morales is considering music as her professional career. Besides violin, she also plays clarinet and viola, and recently started working on her piano skills. Irie looks forward to attending college and obtaining her degree in music.

Ms. Morales is a leading violinist at her high school orchestra. She also performs with a string quartet, and other community-based orchestras and groups.

She studied with Alexandra Keegan (violin) and Travis Maril (violin/viola).

INSTRUCTOR

Diego Guerra Diego Guerra of Monterrey, Mexico, is a violist and conductor based in San Diego. He is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Music in viola performance at San Diego State University. Guerra stays active locally as assistant conductor with the City Ballet of San Diego and co-founder of the San Diego Philharmonic. Most recently, he conducted the SDSU production of Peri/Gluck Euridice operas.